Steffan Blaser's Lake Oroville Real Estate Blog » Oroville http://steffanblaser.com Real Estate in the Lake Oroville California Area Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:34:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 I am now in the new office location– 2770 Olive Hwy Suite G (Good)– http://steffanblaser.com/2010/10/18/i-am-now-in-the-new-office-location-2770-olive-hwy-suite-g-good/ http://steffanblaser.com/2010/10/18/i-am-now-in-the-new-office-location-2770-olive-hwy-suite-g-good/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 03:27:45 +0000 Steffan Blaser http://sblaser.blogs.rwnetwork.com/?p=990
Lake Oroville from the top of the dam July 2010

 

Now I am right next door to Arby’s. (Good)

Moved closer to Lake Oroville. (Good)

Why don’t cha come down and see me sometime. (Good)

Helping you with Real Estate since 1994. (Good)

As you see—it’s all good.

Buy Buy Now :)

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Steam Locomotive No. 844 is the last steam locomotive built for Union Pacific Railroad. It was delivered in 1944. A high-speed passenger engine, it pulled such widely known trains as the Overland Limited, Los Angeles Limited, Portland Rose and Challenger.

Many people know the engine as the No. 8444, since an extra ’4′ was added to its number in 1962 to distinguish it from a diesel numbered in the 800 series. The steam engine regained its rightful number in June 1989, after the diesel was retired.

When diesels took over all of the passenger train duties, No. 844 was placed in freight service in Nebraska between 1957 and 1959. It was saved from being scrapped in 1960 and held for special service.

The engine has run hundreds of thousands of miles as Union Pacific’s ambassador of goodwill. It has made appearances at Expo ’74 in Spokane, the 1981 opening of the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans and the 50th Anniversary Celebration of Los Angeles Union Station in 1989.

Hailed as Union Pacific’s “Living Legend,” the engine is widely known among railroad enthusiasts for its excursion runs, especially over Union Pacific’s fabled crossing of Sherman Hill between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming.

It will be open for Tours Friday May 1st from 8am to 5pm off  Mitchell Avenue by the PCP Cannery

 

For more information about this historic steam locomotive go to  http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up844.shtml

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